Mixed Jurisdictions Compared: Private Law in Louisiana and Scotland

Edited by Vernon Palmer and Elspeth Reid

November, 2009
Cloth, 430 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3886-4
Edinburgh University Press
$95.00

Earlier volumes in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series have featured in-depth studies of so-called "mixed jurisdictions"—legal systems that combine elements of the Anglo-American Common Law and the European Civil Law traditions. This new collection of essays revisits that theme by comparing key areas of private law in Scotland and Louisiana. In fourteen chapters written by distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the volume explores not only legal rules but also the reasons for these rules, discussing legal history, social and cultural factors, and the law in practice in order to account for patterns of similarity and difference. This title will be of interest to students of comparative law at senior undergraduate and postgraduate levels, academics and researchers, and those who are interested in mixed jurisdictions and their function within the harmonization of private law in Europe.

Related Subjects

• European History

About the Author

Vernon Palmer is the Thomas Pickles Professor of Law and codirector of the Eason-Weinmann Center of Comparative Law at Tulane University Law School. Elspeth Reid is senior lecturer, School of Law, University of Edinburgh.

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